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I'm actually somewhat new to the area and I'm still exploring and always looking for new restaurants. I took my family there yesterday and I was really impressed with the service, ingredients and how the food was prepared.

We started with a shrimp and beans appetizer and that was excellent. I noticed some white wine flavor coming through which I felt suited the dish well.

My mom got the filet mignon and brussels sprouts. She let me try some and they were both flavored well and cooked to perfection.

Her boyfriend got a bunless burger to avoid gluten. It was the juiciest burger patty I've ever tried.

The brussels sprouts tasted almost like potato chips and were slightly crispy, yet there was no excessive oil. I felt this flavor direction for the dish was a great choice.

I got a limited-time menu item which included three lamb chops on a base of labneh and pomegranate seeds. These were cooked to perfection as well and my mom asked if they were "gamey" and I just felt they were delicious. The labneh and other ingredients were also well prepared.

Our server Daniel was very knowledgeable and accommodating of my family's needs. My mom had some questions about the menu and we also needed some gluten free items for her boyfriend because he's very sensitive to it.

I'm so happy with the restaurant and I'll definitely be going back and trying their sister locations. I only took one picture of the food that night which I may be able to add to the post/comments later. Thankfully, they have been around ten years at this point, so they probably aren't going anywhere. Thanks for reading.

I got Pro 5x the other day. It's great, and Pro reasoning is excellent for my needs. Reddit seem to think Pro reasoning is "unlimited" and OpenAI doesn't have any documentation about this. To me, unlimited means 50-500 5.6 Sol messages per 5h window.

I used Pro about 15-20 times yesterday before it ran out. Today, I used it one time and it became unavailable.

Is it just bugged or is this how it's supposed to work? I am awaiting a reply from OpenAI support and I don't really feel confident they can answer my question at all. Mostly because their human support agents don't read your question sometimes but I digress.

I have been using my Winix C610 for a little over a week now. My room volume is approximately 3900 - 4300 cubic feet. Not sure of the exact measurements of the room. I am in the USA.

I've noticed the air quality light changing color depending on the fan speed. It can be blue after running all day on High, but when I switch to Turbo it changes to yellow. This has happened multiple times and doesn't seem to depend on whether I've cooked something recently.

Why would switching to Turbo cause the air quality reading to get worse? Does Turbo pull in air from farther away that the sensor wasn't detecting on High?

Given my room is rather large and the C610 is only rated for about 3 ACH on High and closer to 4 ACH or a little more on Turbo, is High adequate for the space?

I am trying to prevent allergic reactions to whatever is in the air in my new apartment. Could be pollen, unlikely to be mold at this point because the place was inspected. Not dustmites or pet dander. They are cleaning the air ducts for me on August 11. I also replaced the filter on the air handler with a MERV 12 rated filter.

I've had a cough for the last two months since I've moved in here. I'm already taking other medical action to fight this. The cough improves with extended time outside of my apartment.

Budget: I spent $100 on this air purifier from Costco on clearance. It seems pretty good for the price. May consider going up to $250 for other air purifiers sold at Costco. I didn't spend more because of my budget constraints at this time.

A little while ago I posted here about feeling stuck in IT, losing interest in cybersecurity, and feeling like I didn't know enough.

Turns out I actually do like cybersecurity. I was conflating it with all the tedious bullshit that gets mixed into my job, namely things not related to IT or security. I also realized I know a lot more about our systems than I gave myself credit for and was dealing with some impostor syndrome.

Lately I've been more motivated to learn and actually care about my job again. I've been taking on projects where I get to solve real problems, research better solutions, improve systems that aren't working well, and learn new technology. That's the part of IT/security I actually enjoy.

I think going forward I'll continue these habits at work and automate as much of the tedious stuff as I can.

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on the original post. This sub has been really helpful.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1ueftnb/early_30s_in_internal_it_and_feeling_stuck_what/

Editing its research plan doesn't always work either. In my recent experience, it just started running the research after the first edit and didn't let me change it further. After it started running with a research plan that lacked important context from my original prompt, I hit Update and specifically told it what I definitely needed included in the research. After doing all that, it does seem my report had everything I needed in it. But other reports have missed important context because it wasn't included in the research plan before I ran it, which makes me wonder whether DR always uses the full original prompt or if information omitted from the research plan can get lost.

As a relatively new resident of Tampa, I have learned very quickly through people honking at others and going around me that you can turn right on a red arrow in Florida. It is legal after coming to a complete stop, as long as there is no sign saying you cannot turn.

Another problem I have noticed is that people sometimes turn right from the middle lane. When they pull forward, they block the view of traffic for the person in the actual right turn lane with the arrow. That person may not be able to see if it's safe to turn, so they have to wait. This can cause the turn lane to back up while people behind them get impatient.

You can also turn left on red in Florida, but only when turning from a one way street onto another one way street.

The point I am getting at is that these traffic signals seem to confuse more people than they help. If you are allowed to turn right on a red arrow after stopping, what is the purpose of using an arrow instead of a normal red light?

In most other places I have driven, a red arrow means you cannot turn until it changes. This makes Florida confusing for visitors and people who are unfamiliar with the rule. I do not think most people look up every traffic law before driving in another state, especially when many traffic laws are pretty consistent across the country.

In my limited experience driving around Florida during the past two months, I have mostly noticed these around Tampa and its suburbs. I showed one to my friend who lives in Orlando, and he said he had never seen one there before.

Maybe I am missing another reason for them, but right now they seem unnecessary and confusing. Are they especially common around Tampa, or are they used throughout Florida? And what is their purpose in Florida?

Edit: The most useful explanation from the comments is that the arrow applies specifically to a dedicated right turn lane and allows that lane to operate independently from the others. For example, the right turn arrow can turn green while the straight and left lanes remain red. When that protected turn ends, the same signal changes to a red arrow, even though Florida still allows drivers to turn right after stopping and making sure it is clear.

Let me start by saying that ChatGPT listens to me about its behavior sometimes and other times it will save a memory and agree to change for all chats and then repeats the same problem in the next message. Using the word "behavior" very graciously here.

For example, I asked it to never use em dashes again, and it listened. However, I've also asked it multiple times to verify information and be sure it's coming from current, authoritative sources before telling me an answer with confidence and it doesn't do that despite saying it will. I would rather not have to include "search the internet and verify information" in every prompt. I also don't know how reliable its internal knowledge is when it doesn't search the internet but it seems to have failed me many times.

Running the prompts on higher intelligence levels seems to make a small difference, especially when it comes to automatically searching the internet. But according to ChatGPT, it says the instant answers are just as good for most of my research questions, so I don't know what to believe. The various intelligence levels I've used are instant, medium and high. Mostly high and I haven't run out of reasoning allowance yet. Instant for simple questions like in example one below.

I believed that ChatGPT was an awesome productivity tool at one point. But now, I am starting to question that, because I constantly have to correct it and verify information myself, even with simple things unrelated to work.

A few examples:

• I asked where to get Dole Whip at Hollywood Studios, and ChatGPT confidently told me it was available at Epic Eats. Later when I asked for all the locations in the park, it changed its answer and said there were no permanent Dole Whip locations. After looking it up myself, I found out Epic Eats does not sell it.
• While helping me shop for a picture frame, ChatGPT claimed one of the frames had an easel. I checked the listing myself and there was no easel. There were several other small things I had to correct in this conversation as well.
• For a work issue, ChatGPT gave me a command to update an application using a maintenance ID. I looked at it first and used my own knowledge of commands to decide if it was safe and made sense. The command ended up being correct. The problem was ChatGPT did not mention that the current documentation said a reboot was required afterward. We wasted time troubleshooting duplicate Installed Programs entries that disappeared after rebooting. Obviously I am responsible for checking technical instructions myself, but having to find and read through the documentation anyway takes away a lot of the time AI is supposed to save me.

My friend uses Claude Opus for security work, code reviews and possibly penetration testing, and he says it makes a lot of mistakes too. I don't know much about how he uses it outside of work, so his experience may not fully compare to mine. Since Opus is included with Claude Pro, I am interested in hearing from people who have directly compared Claude Pro and ChatGPT Plus for current factual information, product research and technical troubleshooting.

I use AI every day for research, planning and brainstorming. But at this point, I am not saving as much time as I should because of all the careless mistakes it makes, and it will not change its behavior. I pay for ChatGPT Plus and would be open to subscribing to another AI chatbot service if it makes less mistakes and follows persistent instructions more consistently. But I only want to pay for one at a time and use one as my primary AI. I have Claude and Gemini free accounts but I just use Claude for second opinions and Gemini since it's built into Google search and is an alternative for image editing and generation.

Does anyone have any advice on this topic? Can anyone suggest a better AI? To be clear, I am looking for an AI that I can use for current factual information, product research and technical troubleshooting and will follow persistent instructions better. Will creating a Project with predefined rules in it and running all my chats through that solve my problems? What about using the Custom Instructions setting? I understand many people have had these problems for a long time and that asking ChatGPT to change its behavior doesn't guarantee anything, but now that I use AI for productivity, I need to save as much time as possible. I do not expect 100% perfect answers.

Bonus. Here's my Custom Instructions entry I just added:

>For factual research, product research and technical troubleshooting, search the internet before answering unless I specifically ask you not to. Do not rely only on your internal knowledge when the information could be outdated, product-specific or directly verified online.

>Use current, authoritative sources whenever possible. Prioritize official documentation, vendor support pages, official product listings, manufacturer specifications, official menus and government or academic sources. Open and check the source rather than relying only on search-result summaries.

>Do not present an assumption, inference or uncertain claim as a confirmed fact. Clearly tell me when something could not be verified or when reliable sources conflict.

>For product questions, verify the exact product and model I provide. Do not infer features from a similar product or from the product category generally.

>For technical troubleshooting, check current vendor documentation and include any required prerequisites, reboots, follow-up actions, warnings and verification steps. Do not invent commands or omit important steps merely to give a faster answer.

>Provide citations for factual claims that you verified online. Never use em dashes.

Wish me luck with that lol.

1. Is it just me or can you not easily create image albums as a Reddit post anymore just by copying and pasting the images into the post? I could only create an album post by using the image upload button which means I have to save the images to my computer first and then upload them. Extremely inconvenient.
2. Pasting an image seems to create some kind of text post and if you paste multiple images, it doesn't create an album and instead just lists them vertically in the text post. Then when you paste a link into the description area, it overwrites your single image and creates a link post instead. First of all, why doesn't it create an obvious image post when you paste an image in and instead now puts an image into some kind of text post? Second, when you ctrl + A to highlight all the text in the description, it highlights the image too and when you press delete it deletes everything.

Whatever the hell they did to desktop posting is a horrible change and huge oversight. Completely out of touch with people who have been using these features for years. I don't mind change, but these changes made the website less user friendly and borderline glitchy.

How can I fix this?

Edit: Just tested the text post thing by pasting an image into the submission page, giving it a title and pressing post. It posted it as a text post with an inline image instead of making an image post.

I tried to fix the Firefox slowness by using an extension to speed up ChatGPT, but that doesn't always work and requires me to fiddle with the extension to get the speed back sometimes. I grew tired of that and decided to use the desktop app.

Well, the desktop app is also laggy. Mainly it freezes as I'm typing. Loading answers can be rather slow but it's acceptable.

I'm on a Windows 10 PC with an old i7 6700k, 16GB of DDR4 and an SSD I pulled from a laptop. So it's definitely not that quick and I need to upgrade. I do struggle for resources at times but right now CPU and RAM usage are not that bad and it's still lagging. Other threads say PC specs are probably not the issue.

No issues on iOS like many others. I believe I had better performance on my Windows 11 laptop using Firefox with no extension.

Might be related to the length of my chats. But it still starts happening after a few messages. I am worried that if I start a new chat then I will lose a lot of context but maybe memory will solve that?

Anyone have any suggestions?

I’ve grown a short beard over the past few weeks and recently had a barber shape it. Since then, I’ve noticed I get a lot more attention from people.

More women seem to look at me or smile at me in public, which didn’t happen nearly as often before. The weirdest thing was at the airport, where four different people, three women and one guy, came up to ask me questions or have a short conversation. That pretty much never happens to me.

Maybe the beard makes me look more handsome, approachable, or friendly. I call it the Beard Effect. Has anyone else noticed anything like this after growing one?

I understand there are many practitioners out there who would be unwise to go with. I searched the sub and only found one witch recommendation, but I couldn’t find any spells listed on her Etsy page, so I’m not sure who else to ask.

I’d really appreciate recommendations for legitimate witches who could help with this, preferably from people who have hired them personally. My best friend would love it, and she didn’t think I was serious when I told her I’d hire a witch for her. She recently hired an Etsy witch for our friend’s wedding, so she does believe in it. I’m just looking for someone who can perform a simple spell to help her interviews go well.

I have a custom made wool suit that I really like, and I’ve had bad experiences with dry cleaners damaging clothes before. I’m looking for a place that regularly handles high quality suits and will take good care of it. Any recommendations? Thanks!